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A quiet place to read

A calm home for the books you already own.

Garden Reads asks for nothing in return — no store, no accounts, no data collection, and no subscription to stress about every month.

Read

A page you can make your own.

Garden Reads gives you every customization option you can think of — each one carefully crafted for a calm, immersive read.

And with Zen mode, the world goes quiet while you read — notifications, clock and battery hidden. Just you and the book.

Adjustable everything

Zen mode

Paginated or scroll

Listen

Switch to audio anytime.

A full audiobook player — chapters, adjustable speed, bookmarks, sleep timer. Connect your Audiobookshelf server to stream your library, with your progress synced everywhere.

Audiobookshelf

Audiobooks

Sleep timer

Understand

Ask it anything. None of your thoughts leave the app.

Powered by Google’s Gemma, running entirely on-device via LiteRT. Select a word or a passage and ask — it answers in the context of your book, with no internet and no account.

And paired with dictionaries, translations and annotations, nothing can stop you from getting the most out of your books.

Annotations

Local AI

Dictionaries & Translations

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Zen

Soft theming, a living garden scene, and Zen mode — open a book and your whole phone goes quiet.

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Private

No account, no tracking, no data collection. The AI runs on-device, and nothing leaves your phone unless you turn on your own Drive sync.

Powerful

On-device AI, Dictionary, Translations, Annotations — every serious reading tool, without the clutter.

Simple pricing

Buy once. Own it forever.

No other subscription to add to the pile.

Free<br>Everything that matters, free

The powerful features cost nothing

On-device AI in every book

Zen mode, seasonal themes & audiobooks

Highlights, notes, insights & Drive sync

Garden Reads Pro<br>Unlock everything

No subscription. Ever.

Offline dictionaries & saved vocabulary

Secure Library & deeper customization

No ads — nothing to disturb the garden

Start reading.

Free, no account — browse free books directly in the app.

See the complete list of features in the full guide →

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